Emmah's POV
When somebody tells you bad news, you never believe it the first time you hear it. That's kinda what we all did when the doctor told us that Jace had cancer, just sat there waiting for him to tell us 'just kidding'. But the 'just kidding' never came, it was true. Jace had cancer.
Jace was the first one to speak. His voice was completely emotionless with no trace of any feelings, "Where is it?", is all he asked.
The doctor let out a long sigh, just adding to his sad expression, "it's in you abdomen, we plan on operating on it soon to get it out as soon as we can. Your only at stage one right now so as long as we act fast, nothing bad will happen."
At least that's some good news to come out of all of this, if you can even count that as good news that is. Only stage one, he's not very far along, just a quick surgery and everything can go back to normal. Even with telling myself this, a terrible thought comes to mind, would if he dies. No, he won't and he can't. I shake the bad thoughts out of my head and try to push then far enough away so I can't think of them again.
Now I'm the one who talks, my voice is weak and raspy, with this I just realized that I was crying. Before I speak though, I wipe the tears away as best as I can, "How did he get it?".
"Well it could be any number if things, we really can't tell how somebody is diagnosed with cancer." The doctor replies softly. "I'm going to give you all a moment to yourselves while I go check in with some other patients, I'll be back in a little." And with that, he walks out of the room.
A long moment of silence sets upon us after the doctor leaves the room, nobody really knows what to say. Since I'm really just at a loss of words I decide instead of talking, I walk by Jace and hug him. I gently wrap my arms around his broad shoulders, letting him lean his head on my chest. Jace is usually the one who's the strongest between us, I don't think I've ever seen him like this. But this is completely ok, he's still handling all of this a hell of a lot better than I would. When we were kids, I remember Jace doing this to me whenever I was hurt or crying, now it's Jace's turn to be weak.
Kalee finally speaks for the first time since hearing all of this news, she's crying but happy at the same time, "You two are just fucking adorable! Here the doctor comes in with terrible news and Emmah just automatically comes to comfort Jace. Now I want to hug you both too!"
Jace lifts his head of my chest to laugh at kalees random burst of words, I laugh too. We open ours arms to her, which in turn she runs into them and hugs us both.
Sitting here, hugging them both makes me think, we're all going to get through this ok, Jace will get better, I know it.
~Next morning~
"Ugh, kalee, can you hurry up and grab all of your food?" I whine loudly to kalee as she takes pretty much five of everything in the food court.
"Shut up I'm hungry and didn't eat dinner last night or any food yet today so don't judge me!" She just as loudly yells back at me.
"Too late, you've already been judged. Judged." I tease back to her, Believe me, she's scary when she mad but right now she makes it so easy to annoy her.
Kalee ignores my remark by simply just glaring darkly at me before she turns back to picking out her food again. Oh my God, she eats so much, like where does she put all of the food she eats? My tray just has one plate of food on it while she has two trays full if food and then made me carry another tray for her.
"Ok! I got all if the food I want, let's go now." She exclaims excitedly as she gingerly walks over to me again.
We walk over to the cashier lady together and pay for our food, kalee almost beating up the cashier. The cashier commented on how much food kalee got so kalee got offended and tried hitting her but I pulled her back just in time.
We find a table to sit and eat together in the cafeteria and sit down across from each other with all of our food.
"So I have a question to ask you, Emmah." Kalee slowly says after she clears her mouth of food for the first time since we sat down.
"Yeah?..." I unsurly reply back as I raise one of my eyebrows. Kalee seems kinda nervous right now, it's weird.
"Well I just want to know if you've talked to Alex since he came to my house yesterday. I know this sounds crazy but I think you should listen to what he has to say, hear what his excuse is."
I pretty much choke on my drink when she suggests this to me, what does she think she's talking about? Me talk to Alex, no. "Kalee, I don't think I want to talk to him right now, especially with everything going on with Jace."
"But Emmah,"
I cut her off before she can even try talking me into it, I'm not going to be the one to talk to him first, if he really wants to talk to me, he can do it first.
Kalee sighs softly in defeat and starts stuffing her face with a bunch of food again. I start eating again to but my phone goes off, signalling I have a new text. I take my phone from my pocket to see who it's from."Speak if the devil." I say out loud.
A/N: Hey guys! I hope everybody had an amazing and delicious thanksgiving!!! So it's been a couple days since I updated and I apologize for that but hey! I brought Alex back in the picture. But as usual, I wrote this chapter at like 1am so there's probably more spelling errors than usual.
Did anybody see Catching Fire?! I saw it on Thanksgiving with my cousins and oh my gawwd!!! My life like can't be complete until I see Mocking Jay. Oh my God it was just amazing.
I decided that I wanted to start doing a song and book of the chapter so if you want a book or song you like on here just leave my a note in the comments.
Song: 'Comin in Hot', Hollywood Undead
Book: 'Project Fat Suit', by not_present ( Wattpad story)
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-Becca
